The Following (tv program)

Comedy may still be a desired staple of prime-time TV, but broadcasters haven't found much to laugh about for the upcoming season. The TV networks unleashed their 2015-16 evening lineups in New York this week, leaving industry insiders buzzing about the Great Comedy Rollback. Burned by a high number of sitcom flops in recent years, programmers have decided to stop trying to bring the funny. NBC, onetime home to generation-defining hits "Friends" and "Seinfeld," has exiled comedy to the dead zone of Friday nights. CBS benched "2 Broke Girls" until midseason and decided to take a flier on the drama reboot of "Supergirl," setting up a superhero...

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Comedy may still be a desired staple of prime-time TV, but broadcasters haven't found much to laugh about for the upcoming season.
The TV networks unleashed their 2015-16 evening lineups in New York this week, leaving industry insiders buzzing about...

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SUNDAY
Be very afraid as Animal Planet's "Mo

Fox has canceled Kevin Bacon's serial killer drama, "The Following," and Rainn Wilson's quirky "Backstrom" series.
"The Following," which starred Bacon as a former FBI agent who is stalked by a lethal serial murderer...

Dim and steaming with urban grit, personal pathos and intense violence, Marvel's great new "Daredevil" series for Netflix proves, once again, that no one understands the multiple-platforming world better than the comic book company originally,...

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The new special "Finding Jesu

Kevin Reilly wasn't such the sly fox in keeping his latest job jump quiet.
Rumblings surfaced Monday that Fox's former chairman of entertainment was nearing a deal with Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting unit to serve as president of its TBS and TNT...

Say this for "Stalker," a new "psychological thriller," which rolls out Wednesday: It makes its troubling intentions and insurmountable flaws instantly clear.
Created by Kevin Williamson, who recently took broadcast-television...

Fall comes. Not such a big deal as it was back before there were 27 TV seasons in a year and a thousand new shows starting every week, but there are still something like a million series premiering on 6 billion channels between now and the end of the...

"Stalker," the new thriller about investigators investigating stalkers, is a show that creator Kevin Williamson, the man behind the "Scream" franchise, has been wanting to do for a long time.
"I've been wanting to tell this story...

Call it "must-wait TV."
More viewers are recording shows or watching them on video on demand instead of watching live TV. The good news for the networks is that it means the shows are getting bigger audiences than traditional ratings would...

Was Fox Entertainment Chairman Kevin Reilly a visionary or a seat-warmer? The jury is out on that one, so let's look at the evidence.
Reilly announced Thursday that he will leave his current post after a seven-year run at Fox. Rumors persisted of power...

The top entertainment executive at Fox Broadcasting has resigned in the wake of a bruising television season.
The departure of Kevin Reilly as chairman of entertainment for Fox comes less than three weeks after he presented a new fall schedule to...

Fox Entertainment Chairman Kevin Reilly on Thursday announced his resignation after seven years leading the network, calling his tenure a "satisfying blast."
Reilly said he would step down at the end of June.
"While difficult decisions...

Playing a TV serial killer can be a confusing job, and James Purefoy knows it firsthand from "The Following." He earned a legion of fans attracted to his focused, controlled madman … and nearly lost them with a singular killing.
"I...